West Ox Complex Site Work Nears Completion

West Ox Complex Site Work Nears Completion; Construction Begins for
PSTOC

Construction of the county’s new Public Safety and Transportation
Operations Center (PSTOC), part of the West Ox complex located at the
corner of West Ox Road and the Fairfax County Parkway, began recently,
with an anticipated completion in the spring/summer of 2008. The
preliminary schedule calls for completion of foundation work this fall
with construction of the building beginning in spring 2007.

Manhattan Construction Company of Fairfax has been awarded the
construction contract, approved by the county’s Board of Supervisors in
June.

Infrastructure work for the West Ox site is 95 percent complete, and the
project is on schedule and within the allocated budget.

Upon its completion, the Public Safety and Transportation Operations
Center will be a model of multi-agency coordination and cooperation. The
state-of-the-art center is being built on an underutilized site, the West
Ox Campus (formerly called “Camp 30”) in Fairfax County. The Fairfax
County Department of Public Safety Communications (9-1-1 Communication
Center), Office of Emergency Management and the county’s Emergency
Operations Center, along with the Virginia State Police Division 7
dispatchers and call-takers and Virginia Department of Transportation
Smart Traffic Center, will be co-located in the facility.

A forensics facility for the Fairfax County Police Department is also
being constructed adjacent to the PSTOC. When complete, the facility
will provide new quarters for the Crime Scene Unit, the NOVARIS section,
as well as the Electronic Surveillance Unit and a future DNA/Ballistic
Laboratory.

The goal of the PSTOC is to respond to the county’s need for a new high
security, state-of-the-art facility that will provide efficient links
between public safety and transportation services, among county, state
and regional agencies in one complex.